Culinary package



June 12, 1928.

W. M. INGRAM CULINARY PACKAGE Filed Feb. 20, 1928 Patented June 12, 1928.

UNITED: STATES 1,673,684 PATENT OFFICE.

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or BALTIMORE, m inynnnn cULmanY raoxaen.

Application filed February 20, 1928. Serial lflo. 255,775.

This invention relates to culinary packages and has for an object to provide a new and improved package of a commodity employed for culinary purposes.

A further object of the invention is to provide a culinary package containing the culinary material, said package comprising a fabric rolled about the commodity and unsecured except as the ends are drawn to gether and retained by proper retaining means with one side of the rolled fabric disposed beneath the opposite side, the said outer side being itself an infold.

A further objcctof; the invention is to provide a culinary package having a cord or string attached thereto in new and improved manner and new and improved position for handling the package.

With these and other objects in view, the invention comprises certain novel parts, elements, constructions, combinations and interactions, as disclosed in the drawings, together with all equivalents thereof as will be hereinafter more fully described, and claimed.

In the drawings:

Figure 1 is a view of the culinary package in side elevation.

Figure 2 is a transverse sectional view through the clamping ring taken on line 2-2 and showing the construction of the ring as being thicker at its original middle part, thinning toward the contacting ends, forming in the completed ring an eccentric.

Figure 3 is a plan view of the original fabric showing the staple by which the cord is attached.

Figure 4 is a transverse sectional view through the package taken on line 4-4 of Figure 1.

Like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout the several views.

The improved culinary package which forms the subject matter of this application comprises a fabric 10 of any approved type, preferably of such material as ordinarily re ferred to as cheese cloth, although the par ticular type of fabric does not enter into the present invention.

The package is formed by infolding an edge 11 to form a rolled edge an the cord 12 is attached by means of the staple 13 01? equivalent fastening member, The relatlve sequence of turning the edge 11 and attach:

beyond the rolled edge 16 as indicated at said Figure 1 for the reasons which will be hereinafter more fully explained.

The ends of the fabric are now gathered together and clasped by a metal or similar collar or band 17 which is constructed thicker at the middle part indicated approximately at 18 in Figure 2, and thinner at the ends as indicated at 19 in said figure for the purpose of retaining the collar more rigidly upon the gathered ends 20 as indicated at Figure 1.

The package thus completed is intended to be filled with a commodity which in use in ordinary culinary practice swells and the underlapping of the edge 15 a considerable distance under the rolled edge 16 is to permit the package to expand as the commodity swells. The inturned edge 11 also prevents the escape of the commodity when and if the commodity swells to such an extent that the inner edge of this inturn might well automatically turn over the edge 15. By the construction of the package with its infold 11, economy of manufacture is not only attained by employing a strip of fabric out from a larger piece, and by reason of the fold not presenting any raw edges, but also provides a package much more secure and reliable when it is subjected to the swelling action of the commodity.

What I claim to be new is:

1. A culinary package comprising a fabric casing rolled about a commodity with one edge slidingly overlapping the other edge and the ends of said rolled fabric closed by bands encircling said roll, the overlapping edge being formed by an infold of the fabric between the outer and the inner fabrics.

2. A culinary package comprising a fabric strip positioned about the contained cominedity with the outer edge unattached to and overlapping the inner cage;-

fabric Ill being drawn together and constricted upon opposite sides of the contained commodity, and a band around each of said constricted ends, the overlapping edge being formed by infolding between the outer and inner fab- T105.

3. A culinary package comprising a rolled strip of material, the outer edge being relatively non-stretchable and slidingly overlapping the inner edge and surrounding the contained commodity, said rolled fabric being constricted upon opposite sides of the commodity, and collars surrounding the constricted parts and retaining said constricted part in said condition, said non-stretchable condition resulting from an edge inturned between the outer and innerfabrics.

4. A culinary package comprising a fabric casing rolled about a commodity with one edge slidingly overlapping the other edge and the ends of said rolled fabric closed by bands encircling said roll, said bands being relatively thicker at the middle than at the adjacent ends as rolled about said fabric.

5. A culinary package comprising afabric strip positioned about the contained commodity With the outer edge unattached to and overlapping the inner edge, said fabric being drawn together and constricted upon opposite sides of the contained commodity, and a band encircling each of said constricted ends composed of material thicker at the side opposite the adjacent ends.

6. A culinary package comprising an over lapped fabric container means constricting theends of the fabric about the contained commodity. and a cord attached to the fabric intermediate the constricted ends and intermediate the overlapping.

7. A culinary package comprising a fabric rolled about a commodity, means closing the ends of the rolled fabric upon opposite sides of the contained commodity, a staple exserted through the fabric intermediate the ends of the package, and a cord attached under the clinched ends of the staple.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

WALTER M. INGRAM. 

